Medical Science
Volume 25, Issue 118, December 2021
Effect of smartphone addiction on sleep quality among medical students at Taibah University, Medina, Saudi Arabia
Sawsan Abdullah Algarni1, Abdulaziz Saleh Aljohani2
1Joint Program of Family Medicine Postgraduate Studies, Al-Madinah,
Saudi Arabia
2Consultant Family Medicine, Security Forces Hospital, Ministry of
Interior, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
ABSTRACT
Background: Smartphone is a double-edged sword since its addiction has a lot of negative effects on health as it will affect sleep quality, eating behaviors, exercise, and academic performance. This study aims to find out the prevalence of smartphone addiction using a validated scale which is Smartphone Addiction Proneness Scale-short version (SAPS) and evaluate the effect of smartphone usage on sleep quality among medical students at Taibah University, Medina, Saudi Arabia during 2020. Methodology: An analytic cross‐sectional study with a self-administrated questionnaire was conducted on medical students at Medical Collage, Taibah University. A self-administrated questionnaire was used to collect data using the PUMP scale for smartphone addiction. Sleep quality was assessed using PSQI. Results: Total number of participants is 312, 44.2% of the participants were males. 31.4% of the participants use smartphone for 1-5 hours, 50% (n=156) use it for 6-8 hours, 10.3% use it for 9-10 hours, and 8.3% use it for more than 10 hours. Using PUMP scale; 46.6% of the participants were smartphone addicts) while 53.4% weren’t smartphone addicts). Using the PSQI; we found poor sleep quality in 41.7% of smartphone users and good sleep quality in 58.3%. Conclusion: Smartphone addiction is readily growing along with the increased need for its usage, this addiction is particularly harmful as it affects many aspects in one's life especially negatively affecting sleeping quality both in a direct way and in an indirect way.
Keywords: smartphone, addiction, sleep quality, medical students, Taibah
University, Saudi Arabia
Medical Science, 2021, 25(118), 3266-3278
